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Who owns peace
Homes turned furnace. Screaming dogs, burning forests, raining bombs...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 27, 2025
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Rulers of Peace
Kumu Ramsay said: The world is your shadow, the world is your mirror. Everything that upsets you shows where you have not yet...

Marieke de Koker
May 31, 2025
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The World Is My Sister
The world is my sister, as broken and human as I. Forgive her shortcomings. Love her for...

Marieke de Koker
May 31, 2025
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Birds vs Metal
When the birds once more are singing and the blaring metal monsters stopped screaming, I have found...

Marieke de Koker
May 30, 2025
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Neverending Story
The deep clouds have brought their storms, both destruction and nourishment bring about change, for one must die to be reborn

Marieke de Koker
Aug 2, 2024
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Detachment
I have nothing and I have everything: in nothing the world is my oyster. Nothing to lose, only to gain, each...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 15, 2024
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Resilience
I am the weed that grows through concrete, I am the diamond emerging from volcanic pressures, I am resilience. Not because I fight against..

Marieke de Koker
May 31, 2024
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Altruist
Give me a seed and I will grow a garden. Give me a hand and I will never let go. Give me love and...

Marieke de Koker
May 19, 2024
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Freedom
Freedom. I have been chasing after her for more than a decade. She is as elusive and mysterious as she is entrancing

Marieke de Koker
May 1, 2024
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mundane
Rare is the moment: sit and stare. White crescent moon smiles, sunny blue sky, the whole world melts away... it's just moon and me...

Marieke de Koker
Nov 18, 2023
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Nature, Starved
I wish the moon would swallow me whole so I can bathe in the illuminescence of her white belly, so I can float weightlessly amongst lotus...

Marieke de Koker
Aug 15, 2023
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Healing Bath
I never realized that forgiveness was not meant to free the sinners, it was meant to free the hands of the inflicted from carrying the...

Marieke de Koker
Aug 1, 2023
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Born of Angels
Born of angels - not a mother, not a father - raised by love incarnate in a vivid world without color, where the harsh contrasts of white on black cease to frame the grainy faces...

Marieke de Koker
Jul 15, 2021
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